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Originally Posted by raj-rif
Tobruk held despite the friction because of the men themselves not their comanders, the men appreciated each others qualities.
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I have read many books on the aussie and british troops, from ww1 to ww2 and the negative feelings between them was not only between the commanders but the line infantry as well, I heard stories about how austaliran soldies would pretend to shot there british officers
. If you ask australians today about it the majority still don't like being under the rule of the british and they didn't then, they were still considered second line troops not fit to hold a front line, by the british, Australians felt as though we were let down by the british at singapore, and in africa. IN our time of need we had to turn to the american marines to help us. P;us the aussie commanders resented the british because for a long time the australian soldies were still under british command, not austrlain commanders.
But if you know that a force has friction in the ranks by using it against them, such as the french standoff with there qovernment in ww1, if the germans learnt of that ww1 could have been different.